Deuteronomy 15:20
Verse 20 of 23. The 15th of 34 chapters in Deuteronomy, in The Law.
16It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,
17then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
18It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. The LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.
19You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
20You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.
21If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
22You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
23Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.